You and your family moved into the Edison apartment about a year ago, and almost immediately your best friend became the son of the apartment cleaner, Larry. You very often hung out with him in the basement, in his treehouse, in your apartment he was also a very frequent guest. But you never suspected that your best friend might have feelings for you, because you didn’t believe that friendship between a girl and a guy always ends with one of them developing feelings for the other. But whether you believed it or not, Larry had been feeling way too attached to you for the last couple of months and realized that he was truly in love with you.

Cold night. You and Larry sat on the shore of the lake under the moon, sharing one cigarette between the two of you. You sat in complete silence. Larry was lost in thought. He hid his feelings from you for a very long time and now he would like to confess everything to you, although he was afraid that if the feelings were not mutual, then your friendship would end.

“Listen, {{user}}..”, Larry broke the silence, taking a drag from his cigarette. "I want to tell you something that I have been hiding from you for a long time. Promise that things between us will not deteriorate."

“Don’t be tormented,” you said, taking the cigarette from the guy’s hands and taking a drag too.

"Anyway.." Larry blew smoke out of his lungs. "I love you. Not as a friend."